Sentences with phrase «planetary naming systems»
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Before the International Astronomical Union announced the names April 11, scientists referred to Charon's features with nicknames like «brown mountain» or «yellow mountain,» says Rita Schulz, a planetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomeplanetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System NomePlanetary System Nomenclature.
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These names highlight the importance of pushing to the frontiers of discovery,» said Rita Schulz, chair of the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
Rita Schulz, chair of the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, commented that «I am pleased that the features on Charon have been named with international spirit.»
A third arm of the International Astronomical Union, the Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature, oversees the naming of features on satellites.
Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.
For instance, the IAU states that it is not allowed to propose the same name for a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.»
There are proposals to name the entire known contents of planetary systems after Japanese soybeans, or Japanese desserts, or famous Japanese professional wrestlers.
In many of these cases, the star will thus take its name from various details of the scientific projects that brought attention to it by discovering its planetary system, which leads to exoplanets with unwieldy monikers like «2MASS J04414489 +2301513 b» or «MOA -2007-BLG-192Lb.»
In honor of the donations of Gloria and Ken Levy that helped facilitate the construction of the Levy spectrograph on APF and supported Lauren Weiss, the team has informally named the HD 7924 system the «Levy Planetary System.&system the «Levy Planetary System.&System.»
Approved by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, it includes names proposed by the New Horizons team and pays tribute to explorers, futurists, and fictional characters.
The planetary system was named TRAPPIST - 1 after The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile.
«We're very excited to approve names recognizing people of significance to Pluto and the pursuit of exploration as well as the mythology of the underworld,» says Rita Schulz, chair of the IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.